The 2012 Genome And Its Legacy

To properly understand what the 2023 reanalysis accomplished, it is worth spending more time on the 2012 genome and what it meant for the field — both in what it correctly established and in what the contamination corrupted.

The 2012 paper, produced by researchers at the European Academy of Bolzano (Eurac Research) in Italy and published in Nature Communications, was at the time of its publication a genuine landmark.

It was the first complete genome ever sequenced from a mummy.